COLLECTION NAME:
Merze Tate Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwaVMTC_06a_Scrapbook_bk
Title:
Vernie Merze Tate Photograph Album 2
Title:
Merze Tate’s Photographs of Barber-Scotia College
Date:
1935-1936
Creator:
Tate, Merze, 1905-1996
Description:
Scrapbook of black and white photographs taken during the 1935-1936 academic year when Merze Tate was Dean of Woman and professor of history at the Barber Scotia College in Concord, North Carolina. Her first teaching position at a college level. Photographs include views of Barber Scotia College including a performance in front of the Music Building, views of buildings on the campus during different seasons, a graduation ceremony, flooding damage to the campus grounds, the daily life of students and group pictures of faculty. Among the photographs is a program for the play of Louisa Mae Alcott’s “Little Women” by the Marionettes (a dance group) at Faith Hall. The program is dated May 22, 1936.
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Subject:
Photograph albums--1930-1939
Subject:
Barber-Scotia College--Buildings
Subject:
Barber-Scotia College--Students
Subject:
College buildings--North Carolina--Concord
Subject:
College students--North Carolina--Concord
Subject:
Commencement ceremonies--North Carolina--Concord
Subject:
Open-air theatrical productions
Subject:
Amateur plays
Keywords:
Junior colleges; African American teachers; Faculty; Programs; Costumes; Ballet dancers; Floods
Person Identified:
Wilkerson, Leona
Person Identified:
Davidson, Thelma
Person Identified:
Currence, Marie
Person Identified:
Davidson, Gwendolyn
Person Identified:
Davis, Dorothy
Person Identified:
Pope, Hazel
Person Identified:
Shuford, Vivian
Person Identified:
Thompson, Nelsie
Person Identified:
Kinon, Bernice
Person Identified:
Inman, Elizabeth
Building Identified:
Barber-Scotia College. Music Building
Building Identified:
Barber-Scotia College. Administration Building
Time Period:
Nineteen thirties
Source:
Vernie Merze Tate Collection. Photograph Album 2 Entitled "Photographs" (Box 6). Western Michigan University Archives
Language:
eng
Rights Status:
In Copyright
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University Library and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by the Western Michigan University Archives and Regional History Collections, Zhang Legacy Collections Center.
Collection:
Merze Tate Collection
Date Digital:
2023